Lent Term, 2011

The University of Cambridge Department of East Asian Studies is pleased to announce the programme for its Lent Term series of Asian Studies Seminars.

The Asian Studies Centre acknowledges with gratitude financial support from the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation.

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars are at 5pm in Lecture Room 8-9 on ground floor of the Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

ALL ARE WELCOME

• Monday, 24th January, 2011
  The Many Kings of Ming China
  Prof. Craig Clunas, University of Oxford

• Monday, 31st January, 2011
  North Korea: Breaking the Deadlock - A Different Approach
  Lord Alton of Liverpool, KCMCO, KCSG
  
  The text of this talk and photographs of the session are now available.
  Cambridge University users may also access Lord Alton's PowerPoint Presentation.

• Monday, 7th February, 2011
  Kami Ways in Nationalist Territory: Shinto Studies in Prewar Japan and Germany
  Dr Bernhard Scheid, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna

• Monday, 14th February, 2011
  Powershift to China: Lessons in Adaptation from the 20th Century
  Professor François Godement, Sciences Po, France

• Monday, 18th February, 2011
  in the Umney Theatre, Robinson College
  Kim Dae-Jung and the Sunshine Policy
  The Inaugural Kim Dae-Jung Memorial Lecture in Korean Studies
  Professor Mon Chung-in, Yonsei University, ROK

• Monday, 21st February, 2011
  Nihonga Painting and the Japanese Reception of Artistic Modernism
  Sainsbury Lecture on Japanese Art
  Dr John Szostak, University of Hawaii, Manoa; Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Art and Culture

• Tuesday, 22nd February, 2011
  in the Auditorium Lounge, Robinson College
  A Lens on China: Sources of Political Change
  Mr Ryan Pyle

• Friday, 25th February, 2011
  in the Auditorium Lounge, Robinson College
  War Against Ambiguous Enemy: Bombing of South Korean Civilian Areas
  by the USAF Fighter-bombers in the Early Days of the Korean War
  Dr Kim Tae-woo, Senior Researcher, Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies,
  Seoul National University

• Monday, 28th February, 2011
  Democracy Accomplished? Trial by Jury in a Historical Perspective
  Dr Dmitri Vanoeverbeke, University of Leuven, Belgium

• Monday, 7th March, 2011
  Cultural and Artistic Exchange in Greater China:
  Beyond National Models and East-West Paradigms
  Dr Rossella Ferrari, School of Oriental and African Studies, London

• Monday, 14th March, 2011
  The Colonial Experience of the Uncolonized and the Colonized:
  The Case of East Asia, Mainly as Seen from Japan
  Dr Koji Mizoguchi, Kyushu University

For further information, contact:

Dr Barak Kushner
Lecturer in Modern Japanese History
Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Telephone: +44(0)1223 335174
E-mail: bk284@cam.ac.uk

Dr Adam Chau
Lecturer in Anthropology of Modern China
Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Telephone: +44(0)1223 335146
E-mail: ayc25@cam.ac.uk

Dr Michael Shin
Lecturer in Korean Studies
Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Telephone: +44(0)1223 335173
Email: mds71@cam.ac.uk